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Here we go again: Parent wants ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ nixed as it ‘perpetuates racist thoughts’
College Fix ^ | January 20, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 01/22/2018 8:34:36 AM PST by C19fan

A school district in Wisconsin is mulling over whether to remove the classic Harper Lee novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its high school curriculum after a parental complaint.

Parent Tujama Kameeta wants the Monona Grove School District in Monona, Wisconsin town to remove the novel due to the “48 racial slurs directed at African Americans in the book.”

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; harperlee; marktwain; monona; songofthesouth; tokillamockingbird; tujamakameeta; uncletomscabin; wisconsin
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To: nopardons

I wasn’t judging you for not liking it, I just wondered why you didn’t. I quite do like it,although it is out of my normal sphere, but it was good this weekend.


81 posted on 01/22/2018 8:27:50 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: x; Peter Libra
Incest ... and this against her own culture.”

If I may interject, the incestual culture of Mayella and Bob Ewell was very far removed from the culture of Scout, Jem, Atticus and Dill, and even Calpurnia.

82 posted on 01/22/2018 8:37:23 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Each to his or her own and I probably like books that you find boring or worse. ;^)

I stopped reading fiction long ago, though every once in a while, I'll read what I call "cotton candy for the brain", again.

Time was that I only read fiction, with a very few non-fiction books thrown into the mix, but that was in my "salad days".

83 posted on 01/22/2018 8:39:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I’m usually a nonfiction reader but have been on a stretch of fiction books due to suggestions.

Do you like podcast? Have you heard S-Town?


84 posted on 01/22/2018 8:45:23 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
I READ books, don't listen to them, and not sure what a podcast even is. So no, forget me hearing "S-TOWN"; I don't have the slightest idea what that even is. LOL

It's one thing to have had my grandmother/parents read to me when I was little, but I don't want someone to read their work/someone else's to me, as an adult.

I know that lots of people enjoy that sort of thing, but it's just not my cup of tea; though I do admit to having very much enjoyed reading to my progeny and grand, when they all were little.

I grew up listening to the radio, when little, so it's not as though I'm unable to visualize a story and do enjoy listening to old radio shows, now, on long car trips. But thagt's somehow something quite different. Well, it is to me, at any rate. ;^)

85 posted on 01/22/2018 9:46:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Control of education has long ago been surrendered to the faaaaaaaaaaaaaar left and even in the most elite/best private schools, the best of Western Lit classics/masters ( European and American ) is hardly ever taught/read now; sadly.]

Absolutely true. I hang around a college coffee shop and bookstore at a state university in Western Oregon, and am appalled at how uncultured and ignorant so many of the young people are.

Leftism has failed wherever it has been tried.


86 posted on 01/22/2018 10:04:43 PM PST by sciencewriter86
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To: nopardons
S-Town is akin to an old radio show, except it's very true, and you listen to the podcast whenever YOU want to, whereas with a radio show, you had to listen when it was on.

And rather than being scripted, this story unfolds in interviews, while the interviewer also acts as narrator.

It's a beautiful work and it's been downloaded over 80 millions times so far. (Free download.)

It's highly recommended. I personally loved it while at the same time, not being in agreement with the main character. But I felt a great deal of compassion for him, and I still do. No matter how long I live, I won't forget John B. McLemore.

s_town_2 s_town

87 posted on 01/22/2018 10:09:16 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: sciencewriter86
Yes, the lefties have been out to DESTROY "culture", manners, and everything worthwhile, for an extremely long time and seem to have "won", now.

OTOH...there were/are non-lefty people, who put down erudition and being well read and/or cultured, which I find weird.

Not every book, "art" form appeals to everyone, however, to not even try to learn about things is STUPID! Besides which, a common "culture" is one of the things that binds a nation and her people together!

Now, it seems as though as everyone and everything is pigeonholed/compartmentalized by race, socio-economics, ethnicity,plunged down into the basest common denominator and such. And THAT stinks!

88 posted on 01/22/2018 10:19:33 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Bodleian_Girl
I'm really not trying to cast aspersions, but that sounds something like a Jerry Springer show/"reality show". And just HOW do you know that it's "real"?

I'm glad that you've found something that engages you and that you enjoy, but it's not for me.

Whilst I have enjoyed reading ROMAN A CLEFs, from Dickens to more modern day books, reading people's diaries ( Queen Victoria's, John & Abby Adams' letters and such ) this podcast is far too voyeuristic, IF FOR REAL, for me to give a damn about. And I'm not so sure that it isn't just some scripted thing.

89 posted on 01/22/2018 10:39:12 PM PST by nopardons
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>> A school district in Wisconsin is mulling ...

... whether or not it should fully capitulate to Leftism.


90 posted on 01/22/2018 10:47:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nopardons
I'm really not trying to cast aspersions, but that sounds something like a Jerry Springer show/"reality show". And just HOW do you know that it's "real"?

It's about a polymath, a man who became the best in the world at fixing antique clocks that no one else would even try to repair.

His mind was such that when taking the clocks apart, he could plot the corrections needed from the centuries old, almost imperceptible "witness marks" that mapped the life and times of the clock.

The 7 chapter podcast is about a suspected murder and corruption that John believes he has uncovered in his small Bibb County, Alabama town, just a few miles from my own.

And there was corruption and a death, but not the ones expected.

John B. Mclemore is considered a force of nature, a brilliant man who was summoned to Europe to repair the finest clocks in the world, yet he never married or moved from his mother's centuries old home after his father died. He built the only hedge maze in Alabama and built a 300 foot long wall of roses. He knew the latin name of every plant native to his state.

He was a man of towering intellect who struggled with the things that you and I probably take for granted. And once you meet John B., you will never forget him, whether in person or through the podcast.

How do I know he's real? My very good friend is a friend of John's and has known him since college.

91 posted on 01/22/2018 11:31:51 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Okay...so this is personal; I get that and that's fine.

For me?

He sounds like an eccentric, who would be interesting to talk to, in real life; maybe.

Everyone has an interesting story to tell, though they may not see it that way themselves. But it means less than nothing to me.

When I was a freshman in college, I was friendly with someone who asked me home for the weekend. Nice get away and I was delighted to go.

When we pulled up to the family home, a car was parked out front and a young man was walking towards it, but stopped when he saw up dive up. Once out of the car, he was introduced to me and I had all I could do just to say "how do you do" and smile.

WHY?

Because the young man's name was RODNEY HARRINGTON, this was in Gilmington, N.H., and I had read PEYTON PLACE and seen the movie ( all on the sly, because it was forbidden to do either, at the boarding school I went to, but we all did at least one or the other )and one of the main charactger's name was...RODNEY HARRINGTON !

And yes, that young man was the son of the boy in that book!

Would I have been interested in hearing a podcast, that he or his father was on? Nope...not the same thing.

As a friend of my friend, it was both a somewhat unnerving meeting, but an interesting one.

I love my "family stories" and really enjoy hearing my friends' family stories too...because i know them and it means something to me!

The man in this podcast is an untraveled eccentric, who is a busybody. Neither he nor his area have any meaning for me.

Look...you need to face the fact that not EVERYONE shares your tastes/interests and stop "pushing"; but rather, just accept the fact that when someone politely attempts to tell you that they 1) DON'T LIKE SOMETHING YOU DO 2) ISN'T INTERESTED in something, you need to just let it go.

I'm NOT trying to hurt your feelings, but I'm getting a virtual black & blue mark from you jabbing me with your finger. ;^)

92 posted on 01/22/2018 11:59:18 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
He’s not personal to me. You asked how I knew he was real, and I told you.

80 million people loved the story. If you don’t think you’d be interested, then by all means, skip it.

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93 posted on 01/23/2018 12:27:17 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
You just can't take a hint, can you?

Even telling you to JUST DROP IT, in no uncertain terms, didn't manage to make it into your brain matter.

ARE YOU BEING PAID FOR SHILLING THIS PODCAST?

Spamming/hijacking this thread with this unalloyed, unadulterated, OFF TOPIC crap, in reply to me, is not just offensive, but stupid!

Some people love watching reality shows, some people like to watch nothing but programs about WWII; others, like you, are addicted to their own opinions and spam their current obsession to threads that have less than nothing whatsoever to do with it.

94 posted on 01/23/2018 12:49:51 AM PST by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein
If we don’t get our educational system under control, this country is going to slip into 3rd world status within my lifetime.

Agreed. And fast.

95 posted on 01/23/2018 1:54:36 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
The book is useless. I’ve read it from cover to cover and didn’t learn anything at all about how to kill mockingbirds.

Thread winner.

96 posted on 01/23/2018 2:01:46 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

I have been accused of living under the hill :)


97 posted on 01/23/2018 2:11:03 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Bodleian, this thread went off topic long ago. It was supposed to be about "To Kill a Mockingbird."

I found this thread very interesting as it veered off into other works of literature, and I found your contribution just as fascinating. I had never heard of that guy. I like hearing things about other parts of the world and this country.

Thank you for your posts.

:)

98 posted on 01/23/2018 2:24:06 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: nopardons

Here’s the deal: you flap your jaws about your opinion, and if you by chance (in that process) misstate what my opinion is, or what I’ve actually said, I’ll correct you.

Should you need any further assistance, ping me, I’m always delighted to help. That’s what we Southern ladies are raised to do.


99 posted on 01/23/2018 4:27:40 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: bagster

Thank you friend!


100 posted on 01/23/2018 4:28:46 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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